Re: USAGE: The four shits in English

John Cowan writes:
 > A Rosta scripsit:

 > > What about "pigshit" = stupid (because one is "as thick (=stupid)
 > > as pigshit").
 >
 > Not known to me, but I cheerfully add it to the list of six,
 > no, seven excrement metaphors.

Okay so there's

Apeshit - crazy, enthusiastic
Dogshit - adj., bad
Bullshit - false
Horseshit - false (milder form - implies nonsense)
Pigshit - stupid
Dipshit - dumb, esp. in a clumsy or silly way
Batshit - crazy (more introverted than apeshit)

which is seven - ratshit is eight.

And then there's more metaphors that use "shit" in a manner other than
noun-shit:

shit for brains - stupid
shit-faced - drunk
shit a (backwards) porcupine - to become extremely upset and angry
the little shit(s) - annoying bad person, incompetent bumbler
sack of shit - a pathetic person, alt. a big lie

And then, not sure if these qualify as metaphors, but they are
certainly idiomatic - not apparent what they mean without some context:

the shits - diarrhea
the shitter - toilet

And yet more forms used as interjections:

shit on a stick - Interjection for amazement
holy shit - Interjection for shock
shits-n-fiddle - interjection for frustration


Brook

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